Function

GtkSourceutils_escape_search_text

Declaration [src] 

gchar*
gtk_source_utils_escape_search_text (
  const gchar* text
)

Description [src]

Use this function to escape the following characters: \n, \r, \t and \.

For a regular expression search, use g_regex_escape_string() instead.

One possible use case is to take the GtkTextBuffer‘s selection and put it in a search entry. The selection can contain tabulations, newlines, etc. So it’s better to escape those special characters to better fit in the search entry.

See also: gtk_source_utils_unescape_search_text().

Warning: the escape and unescape functions are not reciprocal! For example, escape (unescape ()) = . So avoid cycles such as: search entry -> unescape -> search settings -> escape -> search entry. The original search entry text may be modified. .

Parameters

text

Type: const gchar*

The text to escape.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: gchar*

The escaped text.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.